Shipping-card holder.



Patented June '14, 1910.

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WILLIAM S. BROWN, OF ENTERPRISE, WEST VIRGINIA.

SHIPPING-CARD HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 14, 1910.

Application filed May 4:, 1909. Serial No. 493,783.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. BROWN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Enterprise, in the county of Harrison and State of \V estVirginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shipping- CardHolders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shipping card holders, and has for an objectto provide a device of this character which will be designed forattachment to a coal car or the like containing a shipment of coal ormaterial and to provide a novel form of retaining means for holding thedistinguishing card or one designating the point from which the coal ormaterial was shipped.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent as the nature of theinvention is better set forth, and it will be understood that changeswithin the scope of the claim may be resorted to without departing fromthe spirit of the invention.

In the drawing, forming a portion of this specification and in whichlike numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views:Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of the card holder. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 33 ofFig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, there is shown a cardholder comprising a member 1 provided at its sides with spaced flanges 2which are disposed in spaced relation to the body portion of the memberto form vertical guideways 3. At the bottom, the member 1 is providedwith a horizontally disposed stop shoulder 4 provided with a rabbetedportion 5. The body of the member 1 is provided with a centrally locatedcutaway portion 6, and at the sides of the said portion 6 the body ofthe member is grooved vertically to form guideways 7. At the bottom ofthe cutaway portion 6 the member 1 is provided with a horizontallydisposed stop 8 having a rabbeted upper portion 9 and lying in a planeabove the stop 4;. The guideways 3 and 7 herein described formreceptacles for receiving distinguishing cards 10 and 10 which areclearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing. The body portion of the member 1is provided with a centrally located thumb receiving passage 11 which isthus arranged to provide for the free manipulation or handling of thecards. The side edges of the member 1 are grooved longitudinally asshown at 12 and are arranged to receive clamping straps 13 secured tothe side wall of the car shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing. Thestraps herein described provide simple and novel means by means of whichthe card holder can be held to the car, but in some instances it ispreferable to secure the holder to the car by means of bolts or othersuitable fastening devices, and for this reason I preferably form in themember 1 a series of bolt receiving passages 14 and a series of nailreceiving passages 15 which latter devices are preferable when theholder is used in connection with a car having a wooden hopper or body.The construction of the member 1 is such that the inner receptacleformed by the grooves 7 opens directly into the outer receptacle formedby the grooves 3 and the inner receptacle is located within theboundaries of the outer receptacle. Incident to the fact that theshoulder 4 is disposed outwardly and beneath the said shoulder 8 and inthis manner access can be conveniently gained to the cards by Way of thethumb re ceiving passage 11.

The straps 13 are offset at their upper ends to form stops 13, and atthe lower ends the said straps are also offset to form stops 14. Thesestops are so positioned with respect to the upper and lower edges of thecard holder that the said holder is efiectively held against verticalmovement, the straps being associated with the holder in such manner toabsolutely prevent loss of the same.

I claim A card holder comprising a main body member having a reducedintermediate portion and enlarged side portions whose inner edges extendover portions of the intermediate reduced portion to form spacedvertical guideways, the said enlarged side portions being formed toprovide vertical guideways, the said main body member having its sideedges formed to provide vertical recesses, supporting straps operativelyassociated in the said recesses and having offset upper and lower edgeportions for holding the said main body member against vertical slidingIn testimony whereof I afliX my signature movement, a stop at the bottomof the inin presence 0 two Witnesses. termediate reduced portion of thesaid main WILLIAM S BROWN body member, and a stop extending approxi- 5mately the entire length of the said main Witnesses:

body member and disposed outwardly and ELSIE SAUNDERS, beneath the firstnamed stop. FRED. A. MARTIN.

